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Date:   Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:17:20 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 02:04:46AM +0000, James Jones wrote:
> Yes, works perfectly, thank you. I like the idea of using this much
> better than getting emailed every time someone wants to delete the a.out
> code again. Consider my use case withdrawn. I've already pushed an
> update to my jaguar-sdk project to use this tool instead.

Ok, pls do test this solution extensively and let us know if there are
other problems. I'll schedule a.out removal then for the next kernel so
you have a month or two time to experiment.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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